Category: Sports

Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah was voted as the African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football’s 2018 awards ceremony in Dakar on Tuesday. Salah beat fellow nominees, Liverpool teammate Sadio Mane and Read more

José Mourinho has been sacked as Manchester United manager following Sunday’s defeat at Liverpool, ending a tenure that began in May 2016. United finally lost patience with a head coach who was not adhering to the club’s core attacking values Read more

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and leading sportswear company, NIKE, yesterday in Asaba, Delta State signed a new, robust partnership agreement that officials from both organizations termed ‘dawn of a new era.’ American kit company NIKE had teamed up with Read more

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Nigeria qualified for the tournament on Saturday after holding the Bafana Bafana of South Africa to a 1-1 draw. The tough contest took place at Read more

The championship starts next week, with cup holders, Nigeria, facing South Africa, Zambia and Kenya in Group B. The eight-time African champions, currently in Ivory Coast, will depart for Ghana on November 14. Nigeria will play South Africa on November Read more

Leicester City Football Club’s owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, a Thai tycoon, was among five people on board a helicopter which crashed and then exploded after an English Premier League match on Saturday. A source close to the club said on Sunday Read more

Lewis Hamilton claimed his fifth drivers’ world championship on Sunday to draw level with Juan Manuel Fangio in the Formula One record books when he finished fourth behind a victorious Max Verstappen in the Mexican Grand Prix. The 33-year-old Briton’s Read more

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have moved up by four spots to the 44th in the world in the October FIFA Coca-Cola Ranking In the ranking table published on the website of the world football governing body on Thursday, Nigeria garnered 1431 Read more

The Nigerian female basket ball team have qualified for the quarter finals of the 18th edition of FIBA’s premier international tournament for women’s national basketball teams, being held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. This is the first time in history Read more

Luka Modric ended Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s decade-long domination of football’s individual awards by being crowned FIFA’s best player of the year on Monday. The Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder starred for both club and country as Madrid won Read more